BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:793b4285e1f6cc01ea3fb9cdc0d40cb11635 CATEGORIES:Events SUMMARY:What it is, why we have it, how to think about it with James M. Banner, Jr. PhD, Yale College '57, GSAS '68 DESCRIPTION:
Hosted by: Alan Farkas, AB Princeton '68, MA Yale '70
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When it comes to history, the word “revi sionist” has become politically charged, stripped of specific meaning and b urdened with negative connotations. When historians’ work challenges accept ed interpretations of the past, “revisionist” is often used to dismiss or d iscredit the challenge. In The Ever-Changing Past< /strong>, award-winning historian James M. Banner, Jr. argues that revi sion has been the essential task of historians since the time of the ancien t Greeks. Despite the human craving for stability and certainty, history ha s always been a fluid body of knowledge, growing and changing as new eviden ce, new perspectives, and new methods emerge. Especially in open societies with democratic governments, Banner reminds us, disagreements about history are a sign of a robust, free public life. Closed, totalitarian societies o ften forbid arguments about their historical pasts. Considering examples from across more than two and a half millennia, Banne r shows us why historical knowledge—asserted, applied, debated, challenged, and memorialized—is always so contested. Such knowledge is essential to pe ople’s understanding of their place in the world, their visions and hopes, their search for meaning, and their group and national sense of identity an d destiny. Banner will be interviewed by his former student Alan Fa rkas. There will be time allocated for moderated audience questions. Cosponsored by:
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